"A lifelong dream of monks here at the temple is to enter the Janggyeong Panjeon but most of them cannot realize that dream before they die," said Venerable Seongan, the complex’s director of preservation of the two buildings that house the 81,258 woodblocks. [In Buddhism, you can be "venerable" before you die.] "Except for rare cases such as a special visit by scholars for research, no one can enter here."

The monk continued, "They may not be the most beautiful buildings of their time, but they are the most practical and scientific," explaining:

The windows on the north and south sides of the two main halls have different sizes so that the outside air comes into the hall, circulates inside the hall once and goes out the opposite way. Ventilation is the most important for the preservation of wooden blocks....

You can find no spider web or bird’s nest in the storage hall, which still remains a mystery.

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“While I can frequently witnessed people reading the Bible on the subway, I rarely see people reaching Buddhist scriptures. Even though the content of the Tripitaka is so rich, it seemed isolated from the public,” Choi told reporters.

“I wondered why, and wanted to show how the content and wisdom of the Tripitaka Koreana could help us solve our problems in real life.”

If you have any professor-acquaintances that translate Classical Chinese texts into Korean and publish them, Joshua, you should show them John C.H. Wu's translation and paraphrase of the NT and Psalms. I would love to buy a copy of it with Korean-Classical Chinese cross reference if it came out. The text itself is quite difficult and have trouble reading it.